Introduction: Soul Calibur 4 is the first game of the series on a next-gen console, and is the last game of the series. The game isn't a hard 1000, but an extremely annoying one, thanks to the achievement Transcend History and the World.

Step #1: Story ModeOne of the most annoying things you'll have to do is complete every character's story mode, even the bonus characters. Seeing as you have to do 33 different story modes, this will be a while. Thankfully each characters story mode is only 10-15 minutes each, and you only need to do one on hard.

The reason why you have to go through every character's story mode is because upon competing a character's story, it unlocks two weapons for them. You do not need to complete Arcade with every character, as that will only give you a little bit of money.

Step #2: The Tower of Lost Souls The Tower of Lost Souls isn't hard at first, but the last few floors will test your patience. The most reliable way to go through the tower is to spam one of Astaroth's attacks. The attack requires you to hold back-left on the (back-right if you are on the right side of the screen), and then you must hold , and after that attack, you can either hit or . Using this combo, along with Health Drain A, can make going through the tower very easy.

As you ascend, make sure you grab Legendary Hidden Treasures.You can buy all of the equipment from the store, so you only have to do the easy hidden objectives.

There is also a nice trick that allows you grind money fairly quickly. Using the strategy displayed in Tower of Gold, you can buy all of the equipment easily.

Step #3: Multiplayer Before going online, you have a decision to make. Out of all of the characters in the game, find the one that suits your style of play the best. There are a lot of high ranked players in this game that will beat you if you don't know what you're doing. While you could spam attacks, any decent human player will know how to counter you, so you really have to learn how to play with a character.

Of course, you could always try to boost the achievements. Host a 40 second custom character match, and hope someone finds you. Seeing as how no one plays this option much, it shouldn't be too hard to find your boost buddy. If you need a boosting partner, try the Achievement Trading Thread.

Conclusion:Soul Calibur 4 is an annoying, but doable 1000. While going online and Transcend History and the World can be a pain, with enough time and effort, they can be done.

The Consecutive win bonus really makes the difference in the end with a total of 127k. So assuming you never lose a round entirely (Losing a round and throwing the fight to retry will void all Consecutive win bonuses):

Alternatively, You can throw a battle if you don't get a perfect without any point deductions. But if you do this, you will lose the consecutive win bonuses.

Tip: Use Astaroth's cheap combo by holding Down/Back and X, then hitting Y. If done right, he will wind up a low swing and knock your opponent down, then do a hard overhead swing. Repeat these two moves over and over and they shouldn't be able to even move.

You will need to earn at least 30 free treasures in the TOLS by completing various tasks. The lists of tasks can be found here. You get an extra treasure for every five floors in descent mode as well. If you get that achievement, you'll have four treasures, then simply do 26 of the 60 tasks fromn the list.

Reach Floor 20 in the TOLS on descend. You unlock Descend when you complete 20 floors of acsend. Wait until you have unlocked more equipment to create a custom character with High attack, defense, Hp, Hp Drain A and/or Hp Burst.

Complete 60 floors of the TOLS on Ascend. The key to completing this is creating custom characters with the appropriate skills required for some floors. Generally, try to create a character with high defense and high hp, adding in skills like Hp Drain A and Hp Burst.

For 45-47F in particular, create a character with Yun-Seong's soul, high defense, high hp, soul gauge vamp and soul gauge damage A. You may need to spam his Forward+Y+Y combo (which they will almost always block), then use a critical finish to beat them.

Astaroth's cheap combo as described in the Arcade Mode achievement works well here as well.

If you are stuck at any time, please ask for assistance in this thread.

A Critical Finisher is performed after a Soul Crush by pressing . Each character has a Soul gauge represented by the colour of the round gem next to the Hp bar. An opponent's Soul gague is reduced when he/she blocks an attack. When the opponent's Soul guage depletes to such a state that the Hp bar begins flashing red, any time the opponent blocks another attack, he/she may get Soul Crushed. This will show your opponent flickering red with electricity and his/her Soul Gauge will turn black and make a noise that sounds liks breaking glass. From there, you have about 1 second to press . This is known as a Critical Finisher and it ends a battle immediately.

Level Yun-Seong to level 9. Create a custom character with low attack, high defense and high hp, but more importantly, give your character Soul Gauge Vamp and Soul Gauge Damage A. Spam his Forward++ attack (which they will almost always block) to get this quickly and often.

Play one of the harder floors in TOLS acsension. Play the one with Cassandra because she attacks very often and very quickly.

An easy way to get this online is to get a friend to play as Yoda and you play as Kilik. Get your friend to do light attacks with Yoda () and then you press (->) + (). Yoda is the easiest character to do impacts against as he has to jump to do light attack, so it is easy to anticipate. So when you see Yoda jump do the Impact.

Play on stages with walls and when the opponent is near the wall, perform a throw or a strong attack. Personally, I used Mitsurugi's basic + throw when the opponent's back is facing the wall. Using the Apprentice, if you back up against the wall, his throw will turn them around and blast them into the wall.

In Create a Character mode, select the character icon with the Green haired male and pink haired female. Create a custom character, exit and save. You'll need to do this to work on some of the harder TOLS floors anyway.

You level up characters' styles by defeating an opponent (not a round or total damage done). E.g. In the first battle of Story mode, you face 3 enemies, your character style makes progress towards leveling up when you defeat just 1 opponent.

If you play TOLS with 2 characters, whoever defeats the opponent gets the "exp" towards leveling up their style. Even if Mitsurugi does 90% of the damage and Yun-Seong delivers the final blow, Yun-Seong will get the "exp."

An unblockable attack is when the screen darkens and a character's weapon gets engulfed in flames. Defeat an enemy with an Unblockable attack to unlock this. An easy way to do this is to use The Apprentice and lower your opponent's health to about 20%. Back off and perform Back++. This is an unblockable, ranged lightning attack.

Get a double K.O such that both you and the opponent get K.Oed and the round ends in a draw. Use Yoshimitsu and do this:

Get each player to about 30% health. Run forward and then hit/hold +. He faces the other way and stabs himself through the body such that his sword goes through his torso and stabs the enemy as well, doing about 50% damage to each of you.

You DO NOT have to complete 40 floors of TOSL descend mode to unlock all accessories. When you unlock 30 achievements in the game, you unlock more equipment/accessories to be bought. Accessories belong to "Special equipment" which only a few characters like Yoda, The Apprentice, Bonus Characters and Algol can access.

You have to watch the whole thing once you boot the game up and then press start when it asks you to. If you let it run past that bit, you won't get the achievement. The achievement then pops once you hit the main menu.

Do 60F in the Tower of Souls and let Algol jump-ring out himself. Do not attack at all; back off until you reach the black rings and let Algol knock you off your feet, roll around and let Algol attack you, he will eventually jump out. This achievement is cumulative, so don't worry about saving gold. Meaning you can spend it. I got my achievement with 500k gold in my "bank".

This video shows the quick money trick, as well as a few other achievements.